Some poorly prepared bodega sushi could have saved America.

If you’ve ever eaten food, worn clothes, ordered something online, used any consumer product, driven on a road, depended on a military to defend your nation’s sovereignty, played a video game, been inside a building that didn’t collapse, watched a movie or TV show, you have benefited from “grunt work.” No society I…

And what should we expect for a programmers’ job when generative AI, which can, based on most reports, code at a basic college level in many instances, eats up and devalues those roles? Why pay a low or mid level coder anything but scraps when a machine can do the work? Today it’s data entry workers. Tomorrow it’s…

A written script is not the end of the line. 100% of shows require on-set and editing-stage rewrites. This fixes anything from continuity errors to new wrinkles introduced by on-set realities/improvisations. Often it’s a show runner-writer, but those people cannot do any writing during the strike. So shows will either…

She left the door open and wasn’t in the least surprised to see him. You’re right that it wasn’t sexual. It was anger. Sally is explosive. 

That was truly hilarious. I know it’s dark, but Barry’s flat affect really sells it. 

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WHAT ARE YOU, MAURY POVICH!!!!????

The REAL versions of these characters would be boring as hell. The Murdoch kids are snoozes. That’s why drama works so well to tell these stories. They can be punched up a bit to be compelling while still delivering the truth about wealth and corruption. That line was funny, even if it does sound a little like a…

We were absolutely meant to have the “is Tom going to jump?” thought — the lingering camera was perfectly engineered to create that tension. Mad Men did similar teases with Don Draper.

He wants to be relevant, too. Money gives you relevance, but so too does a big network job and association with a famous family. Without 2 of the 3, he won’t be happy. 

I don’t know if Noel Fielding and Matt Lucas were the ideal choices to fill those roles on the recent British seasons, but if you see them interacting with the contestants you can see they’re so nice and gentle, especially when a competitor is having a rough moment or is suffering serious doubt. I feel that those 2…

That’s interesting. I’ll have to rewatch it with that in mind. 

What on earth is going on with the edit capabilities on this site? In any case, I wanted to scratch Martin McDonagh and actually have the Safdie bros direct. 

This seems too obvious and too ripe for fanboyism. Want to make an interesting movie? Do one about the 1980-81 season and let the Safdie bros make it. 

Tyler James Williams as Garrett Morris

This who’s who casting is numbing. Give me a star or two surrounded by solid character actors and new faces. I don’t need CAA’s entire client roster to make a film interesting. 

Yeah, that’s management, not the creators. Netflix doesn’t understand how to construct seasons. 

Honestly, I’m curious how we get from that shot to Barry and Sally living anonymously (it really better not be some cheap hallucination). 

I got the sense that his son isn’t dead. I think that would break Gene as a character. You just can’t come back from that. He’s already come back from one bout of grief. I hope he doesn’t get sidelined in another.